Aisha Yusuf

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Aisha Yusuf is a Somali-Canadian born in Toronto, Canada, and currently resides in Edmonton. As a young teen, she was an avid reader, but as she got older, she noticed there was no representation of people who looked like her and had her shared experiences. In high school, she decided she was going to write the book she always wanted to read. She started her writing journey in high school and hasn’t stopped since.

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I wrote my book at 15, finished at 19, getting ready to publish at 23

In 2021, you would think diversity in literature would improve. However, I am astonished by the lack of black Muslim characters in fiction novels. Let alone being showcased on book covers. When I started writing this book in 2014, I was fed up with the lack of representation in the books I was reading.

I couldn’t find a single book where a character looked like me and had my shared experiences. I d

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